April 16 : U.S. utility NiSource said on Thursday it had signed a long-term energy supply agreement with a unit of Alphabet to support a large data center in northern Indiana. The company also said it had expanded an agreement with Amazon to speed up power delivery to its sites and bring forward bill credits for households. • Big Tech firms have been scouring for new, reliable and cleaner energy sources to power their rapidly expanding data centers, which are being driven by the increasing use